Are These Liberal Billionaires the Biggest Threat to Americans’ Second Amendment Rights?

Billionaires Laura and John Arnold, along with 2020 hopeful Michael Bloomberg, are working to limit Americans' access to guns.

By NTK Staff | 10.10.2018 @11:00am

Billionaires Laura and John Arnold and their family foundation, along with 2020 presidential hopeful and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, could be the biggest threat to Americans’ Second Amendment rights in 2018.

Bloomberg’s advocacy for stricter gun control laws has been well-documented from his time as mayor of New York City, where he co-founded Mayors Against Illegal Guns.

Before joining the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, Travis “served as president of John Jay College of Criminal Justice of the City University of New York, where he transformed the college into one of the country’s leading research and educational institutions in criminal justice.”

A 2004 New York Times profile of Travis noted he “has never carried a gun, much less taken aim and fired one,” Travis anti-gun background makes it almost impossible to imagine that the research he conducts on gun violence will be impartial.

But that’s not surprising when you read an op-ed written by Laura Arnold that appeared in the Houston Chronicle, where she stated her fierce opposition to the Dickey Amendment.

For those unfamiliar with the Dickey Amendment, it mandated that “none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control.”